Ice Tethered Profiler 16 Data

Data from ITP16 deployed in September 2007

Last buoy status on 2010/9/5 230118 UTC : temperature = 1.64 °C, battery = 10.49 V

Plot of ITP Buoy Status

Last position on 2010/9/5 230118 UTC : 80.247° N, 104.854° W

Plot of ITP Locations

Last profile (number 643) on 2008/4/3 24 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 122.2923 mA, mean battery = 10.1657 V

Plot of ITP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = 12.9015, maximum = 407.2659 m

Last profile temperature: minimum = -1.6479, maximum = 0.48326 °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = 30.0532, maximum = 34.8474

Composite Plot of ITP T & S Profiles

Plot of ITP T & S Contours

The raw GPS buoy location data are available in an ASCII file: itp16rawlocs.dat

Depth averaged profiler data files (with interpolated location) are available in two formats:

itp16grddata.tar.Z or itp16grddata.zip

ITP16 was deployed on 2 September 2007 near 87° 50 N, 169° 48 W from the German icebreaker "Polarstern" as part of the European Union DAMOCLES Program. The ITP is operating on a rapid sampling schedule of 3 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.